Spanish police this morning say they have arrested three involved in the hacking of Sony's Playstation Network, which shut down the Playstation 3's network for month, locking nearly 80 million gamers out of playing online.
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First Mortal Kombat and now this? Dead Or Alive: Dimensions for the 3DS will be pulled from store shelves following a decision made by the Australian Classification Board to revoke the game's tame PG rating in light of claims made by the Australian media that the game contains child porn.
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As a long-time Final Fantasy devotee, I have to say that Square-Enix’s twist in direction starting circa Final Fantasy XII didn’t really do it for me. I persevered, of course, as all good FF fanboys are want to do even when the haircuts and the belt-skirts and the damn Moogles just get too much for any reasonable person to acknowledge as palatable. Final Fantasy XIII was a whole ‘nother thing entirely, though. I don’t know a single person who’s managed to finish it without succumbing to crippling ennui – so what of its upcoming companion piece, Final Fantasy XIII-2?
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Before the BF3 segment at E3 a leaked trailer was released showing multiplayer gameplay footage. Nice hype that was!
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In a move that is widely being interpreted as a lesson learned from Sony's heavy-handed response to the PS3 hacking and the subsequent network-wide outages that followed, Microsoft have chosen to instead nurture the talents of a 14-year old boy from Dublin, Ireland, who attempted to break into the Xbox LIVE network. The boy was responsible for a network-wide alert when Microsoft detected the intrusion and feared that personal information may have been compromised.
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When Sony announced that they would be increasing research and development costs speculation was high as to where the money was going. In a conference call made to investors to clarify the spending, Sony's executive vice president and chief financial officer Masaru Kato has confirmed that the company is at work on the successor to the PlayStation 3.
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